Wednesday, 19 December

16:24

The phrase 'cultural safety and security' is a new aspect of
health policy for Australia's First Peoples. It asks healthcare
leaders and stewards to consider cultural safety not only when
health professionals communicate with patients, but throughout
every point and pathway of the healthcare system which, in so
doing, could become culturally secure for Australia's First
Peoples.

The question that stimulated this critique was: how are
healthcare stewards meant to restructure their corporate governance
so that their healthcare services are more culturally safe and
secure for Australia's First Peoples?

10:37

Have you seen the ABC documentary about Waterloo called There
Goes Our Neighbourhood?

Quote All over the globe public housing is under siege.

And now its Australias turn.

Whichever major party is in power across Australian states the
despicable covert privatisation of Public Housing and public land
is likely to continue, because whats driving it is money, power and
mega-profits.

Homelessness of course will worsen!! The homeless, to our shame,
are our internal refugees

Personal testimonials (1)

At a meeting in Gronn Place in West Brunswick earlier this year,
we heard from Louise who spoke about her sisters experience in
Millers Point in Sydney.

When the government said they wanted to renew Millers Point,
they said the main reason was that it was costing too much in
maintenance. I can tell you right now, they spent nothing on
maintenance. People had to paint their own places, had to replace
their own stoves. The government spent nothing.

In Millers Point, to get them out, they offered them the world
not telling them they were finding them alternative accommodation
by throwing those (public) tenants out. The same pretext they said
to existing tenants, Youll only be out for 3 monthsand well fix the
place up. In the meantime, they brought in people from Millers
Point.

Theres two reasons why people live in Public Housing. The first
reason is they choose to because of their community. Secondly, they
cant afford any other accommodation, either temporarily or
permanently. There has to be a place in our society for people who
cant afford to buy or pay high rents. Everybody is a
citizen.

Regarding the displacement process underway in Melbournes
inner-city under the Labor government

Louise: People have mentioned the government coming along with
pieces of paper and smiles on their faces. What happens is they
tell lie after lie. The minute people give up their place in Public
Housing theyre heading down the road of homelessness for a number
of reasons.

08:47

Last week Prime Minister Scott Morrison proposed the creation of
a Commonwealth Integrity Commission, after months of refusing to do
so.

The intensity of public pressure and loss of a parliamentary
majority forced the issue.

It is tempting to see this as a major back down. But things are
not always quite what they seem. There is no intention to set up a
commission to properly tackle corruption in Canberra. A smokescreen
to cover up public anger against lack of action is being
erected.

Its there is black and white, in the paper submitted last
Thursday, which boldly states that the CIC will not investigate
direct complaints about ministers, members of parliament or their
staff received from the public at large.

The implication is that information passed on by a whistleblower
will not be followed up either.

All that the CIC will be mandated to do is take referrals from
established government agencies and regulators. This means that the
machinery to edit out what the government does not want pursued is
in its hands. After all, these agencies operate under the
guidelines provided by the government of the day.

Even if specific government direction does not exist, hurdles
and delays conveniently in place, to make it much harder for
any complaints to be heard.

The Federal Police, for instance, has a mandate to investigate
corruption. But its track record is nothing to brag about. If those
who have some information to pass on, have to go to the Federal
Police, and wait for them to build a case, and pass it on to the
CIC, it may be a very long wait, if anything is done at all.

This will send out the message that making a complaint is a
waste of time.

Secondly, any case coming under suspicion, must meet a perceived
threshold test of criminality on paper. But how is this to be
tested?

Those involved in corruption do not put their behaviour out
there in public to be seen. Cracking cases must involve following
up leaks and pulling aside the cloak of secrecy. The CIC will lack
the power to do this.

Thirdly, even if a case reaches the CIC, all it is empowered to
do is hand over the case to a special prosecutor, who will decide
whether a criminal case should take place. Who appoints the special
prosecutor?

This is a CIC without teeth.

Every indication is that there is significant corruption in
Canberra. The high number of multi-million contracts, widespread
connection between those in the political system and the corporate
world, and the penetration of the business lobbyists provide
fertile territory to induce payments for favours.

Tuesday, 18 December

20:07

Originally published by Paul Gregoire at Sydney Criminal Lawyers
on July 5th 2018 but given the recent uprising in France its about
time I shared this. Its as though our so-called leaders got wind of
what was in the works in France with the yellow vest movement as it
was started back in may! This []

15:07

This research from the Centre for Transformative Work Design brings
together findings from a literature review with a comprehensive
analysis of 59 FIFO studies, a survey of more than 3000 FIFO
workers, in-depth interviews, surveys of FIFO partners and former
FIFO workers, and a study that tracks how workers experiences vary
across five points of a swing.

The findings across all of these sources of evidence are
remarkably consistent. The research shows that, even when taking
account of associated risk factors such as age and education, there
is a greater risk of mental ill health amongst those workers
operating under FIFO work arrangements. Indeed, one third of the
3000 FIFO workers surveyed experience high or very high levels of
psychological distress, as measured on an extensively validated
scale.

Crucially, poorer mental health and riskier alcohol and other
drug use are risk factors for suicide, and both of these risk
factors are present in the FIFO sample. In addition, FIFO workers
have a demographic profile (gender, age, education, job role) in
which suicide likelihood is greater, while also reporting feelings
of loneliness, stigma, bullying and perceived lack of autonomy.
Altogether, this pattern of findings suggests that FIFO workers are
likely to be at greater risk of suicide.

14:23

The Independent Commission Against Corruption has raided the NSW
Labor Party headquarters in Sydney on Tuesday morning. The Herald
understands investigators arrived at the Sussex Street offices,
looking for records as part of an ongoing investigation. Senior
union and Labor Party officials are in Adelaide for the ALP
National Conference...

05:33

The ABS reported last week that births in Australia
remained very high in 2017 at 309,142, just below the record high
of 311,104 recorded for the preceding year.

Yesterday morning the bureau also reported that
permanent and long-term arrivals hit another record high of
+825,480 over the year to October 2018.

This represented a strong +6.1 per cent increase
from a year earlier, and was a world away from the +709,110 for the
year to October 2015.

Substantial numbers, indeed.

Education arrivals were also tracking at levels
suggesting that international student enrolments will remain an
ongoing force for demographic trends.

There were also 9.2 million short-term arrivals
over the year, comfortably up from 8.8 million a year earlier, as
the tourism boom powers on.

Rental market lags

Record high arrivals into a period where it's
rarely been tougher to get an investment loan across the line,
then.

My admittedly somewhat flaky models suggest that housing markets
could swing towards a rental shortage at the national level
ex-Sydney by the time of the election next year, once the
seasonally soft Xmas period has passed.

......

Monday, 17 December

18:19

Listeners to BBC Radio 4s Today programme on
December 15th heard the following (from 05:06here) in a news bulletin
presented by Alan Smith. [emphasis in italics in the original,
emphasis in bold added]

Smith: Australia says it now
recognises West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel but it wont be
moving its embassy from Tel Aviv at this stage. The prime minister
Scott Morrison has also acknowledged the aspirations of
Palestinians for a future state with its capital in East
Jerusalem. The divided city, where the Israeli
parliament is located, is not internationally recognised as the
countrys capital. Phil Mercer reports from Sydney.

Apparently BBC Radio 4 along with the BBCs
correspondent in Sydney is so used to using the politically
partisan term East Jerusalem that it has forgotten that although
Jerusalem was indeed divided during the nineteen-year period of the
unrecognisedJordanian occupationthat began in 1948, it was ...

14:19

Published on Dec 16,
2018European auto
resignations plunge, this is not a good sign, we are seeing auto
sales in the US and Europe decline. Home prices in Australia,
Canada and Europe are declining, the housing prices in the US are
also dropping, bubble is deflating. Q posted how the Fed is going
to be taken down by gold, Trump confirms this by his past comments
on gold. The timing will be everything but the build up to
contradict and bring the Fed down is in the works.Published on Dec 16, 2018Texas Judge rules
Obamacare is unconstitutional. Robert Mueller gives the 302's to
the Judge. Clinton answers questions under oath and can't remember
20 of them. The MSM is preparing for video and other news by
telling everyone do not believe what you see or hear. Anons
explains whats coming up.